Health & Wellbeing Education & Young People 2025
Sport in Mind

Youth Impact Report 2025

Sport in Mind is the UK's leading mental health sports charity, using sport and physical activity to improve the lives of children, young people and adults experiencing mental health challenges. The 2025 Youth Impact Report covers the past 12 months of delivery across nine English regions, reaching 6,552 young people through sport sessions and school workshops. All programmes are delivered hand-in-hand with the NHS and co-designed by people with lived experience of mental illness. Key outcomes include 72% of participants reporting improved mental wellbeing and 91% more likely to be active outside sessions. The charity was founded in 2010 and holds a Queen's Award for its programmes. Work spans inclusive weekly sessions, school assemblies, and an interactive youth wellbeing journal used across 40+ schools.

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Weekly inclusive sport and physical activity sessions for young people with mental health challenges; school workshops and assemblies on mental health and resilience; interactive youth wellbeing journals; NHS-partnered co-designed programmes; youth community sessions across nine regions of England Custom geography from upload: England (Berkshire, Greater Manchester, Sussex, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire)

📊Key Metrics

6,552 children and young people supported through sport and education programmes in the last 12 months Key Metric 1
5,698 school children educated about mental health and resilience through workshops and assemblies in over 40 schools Key Metric 2
854 young people supported through weekly youth community sessions for mental health recovery Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 72% of children and young people reported improved mental wellbeing since attending Sport in Mind sessions, with 91% more likely to be physically active outside of sessions — delivered in partnership with the NHS and co-designed by people with lived experience
  • Sport in Mind youth journals showed strong outcomes: 92% of young people had fun using them, 86% now recognise the benefits of physical activity for mental health, and 100% of teachers said they would use the journals again
  • At the point of the report, over half a million young people were waiting for CYPMHS treatment in England — with half waiting over a year — providing urgent context for Sport in Mind's community-based sport and mental health model as an early intervention pathway

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